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Vee Green

Vee Green held Drake at Regional Program III for 10 seasons.

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1936–1946 · 1 stint
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerDRAKERegional Programthe building-block levelDrake, 1936: 6-4, Regional Program IV1936Drake, 1937: 8-2, Regional Program IV1937Drake, 1938: 5-4, Regional Program III1938Drake, 1939: 5-5, Regional Program III1939Drake, 1940: 4-5, Regional Program III1940Drake, 1941: 4-5, Regional Program IV1941Drake, 1942: 3-7, Regional Program IV1942Drake, 1944: 7-2, Regional Program IV1944Drake, 1945: 5-4, Regional Program IV1945Drake, 1946: 2-6, Regional Program IV1946+0.0One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Drake, 10 seasons
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Regional Program IV → Regional Program IV.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

Winless in 3 tries against Henry Frnka.

One-score games
5–3–1
55.6% · margin ≤8
The toughest matchup
vs. Henry Frnka0–3
3 meetings, 1941–1945
’41 L’42 L’45 L
0% win rate across a real, 3-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Power Program
0–3 0.0%
National Program
3–9 25.0%
Regional Program
5–10 33.3%

Coaching career

1936–1946
Drakecaretaker
Regional Program III
Vee Green held Drake at Regional Program III for 10 seasons.

1st-best Drake tenure of 3 by the numbers.

Succeeded by Al Kawal (1947–1948).

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